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No. 5 - Song - Madame Amelie - "The Lady Wasn't Going That Way"
| Madame Amelie: | It's really hard, when times are bad And Tradesmen unforgiving For ladies in Societee who haven't any L. S. D. To earn an honest living. A rough experience I have had While friends unkindly mocking Their firm belief would all express That nowadays to win success One must do something shocking. But the lady wasn't going that way Though they told her impropriety would pay So she shut her little eye-ses To the glitter of the prizes And declared she wasn't going that way. |
| A lady florist I became And Peers called ev'ry morning; They purchased from my fingers fair And left the shop with orchids rare Their buttonholes adorning, Until a Duke (don't ask his name!) With tender smiles and touches My heart no doubt designed to win Invited me to supper in The absence of his Duchess! But the lady wasn't going that way Though you can not pick up a Duke ev'ry day So she turned her little toe-ses From the naughty path of roses For of course she wasn't going that way. |
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| My novels, from a publisher Got no consideration For nowadays, he said to me, Successful works are bound to be Unfit for publication. In Sloane Street as a milliner I met with failure utter A West End tea-shop too I tried Where "ladies only" were supplied With tea and roll and butter. As a manicure I might have made it pay If good fortune had enabled me to say That I'd cut some Royal nail-ses Say the Queen's and Prince of Wales's But I never saw them coming my way! |
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